“Dad wondered what might have happened” Impossible
Gran had looked stunned and said to Dad, ‘That’s impossible. He died two years ago’.
I felt Dad shudder. Even now, he couldn’t quite believe it.
‘Mum explained Rumesh had died after an accident with a truck,’ Dad was astounded, because he was absolutely certain that the person he met on that dusty road was his good friend Rumesh.
‘The things we were talking about – only we knew the details,’ Dad said.
‘The person had looked exactly like Rumesh and sounded like him.
Into the dark
‘Now I come to think of it, though, when we met, I held out my hand, but Rumesh didn’t shake it – at the time, I thought nothing of it.
‘And, when the odd vehicle did…
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Chat It's Fate (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2017